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Re:JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript by xanderjanz on Sunday May 03, 2015 @04:18AM (#9480472)
Useful for obfuscating executable JS for security reasons.
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Re:JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript by BinaryIdiot on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:44AM (#9481709)
Security through obscurity is not security. This would be easy to translate back into the original code anyway. This is also not efficient from a file size perspective which is cancer on the web.
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Re:JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript by thomasfoster96 on Sunday May 03, 2015 @04:40AM (#9480513)
It'd have to be something that really had to be hidden, because most of these edge cases are very very slow to run.
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Re:JSFuck – esoteric JavaScript by berbc on Sunday May 03, 2015 @04:40AM (#9480514)
Why? I believe you have more sophisticated ways of obfuscating code. Those tricks seem to be easy to reverse.
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